[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 25 (Wednesday, February 28, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1379]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer:
  Dear God, we respond to Your invitation to enjoy these moments of 
conversation with You. We praise You for who You are: our creator, 
sustainer, loving heavenly Father. It is awesome to us that You have 
chosen, called, and commissioned us to be Your blessed people. Forgive 
us when we resist the greatness You desire for us and forget to ask for 
Your guidance. We thank You for the times we did trust You and did 
receive Your blessings of wisdom, strength, and determination. You have 
called us to be intercessors by placing in Your capable hands the 
problems of people around us. Now hear our longing to know and do Your 
will in the crucial matters before us. There is so much on which we do 
agree; show us how to come to creative compromise in issues on which we 
do not agree. Give us clear heads and trusting hearts. May we earn a 
new confidence from the American people by the way we press on 
expeditiously and with excellence. Now we commit ourselves anew to You. 
We reorder our priorities. Deliberately we put behind us self-serving 
manipulation and put before us our patriotic motivation. With 
confidence we thank You in advance for Your guidance today. In Your 
all-powerful name. Amen.

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